Still affected in the psoas, Samuel Umtiti does not appear in the Lille group selected against Rijeka Thursday evening (8 p.m.), in the first leg of the Europa League Conference. “Samuel has started working on the pitch but is not ready for the game. Tiago (Djalo) is injured. The rest of the group is available,” said Lille coach Paulo Fonseca earlier this Wednesday at a press conference.
World champion in 2018 with the Blues, Umtiti, 29, joined Losc this summer after seven seasons at FC Barcelona. Often injured in Catalonia, he had been loaned to Lecce to find playing time.